Ep255 - Richard Wolfson | Nuclear Energy: One Environmentalist’s Perspective
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Will Nuclear Solve Our Climate Crisis?
Electricity is shown in this pie graph accounts for only about 25% of our greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture, which has nothing to do with or little to do with energy generation, produces another quarter of it. Carbon buildings in industry produce most of the rest. They could be made to use less carbon, produce less carbon, but the electricity sector is only 25%. And remember that nuclear is used primarily to make electricity. It's not used for transportation. Its energy is not used directly in industry. But electrification of some of these other sectors would help.
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